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Old 05-21-2009, 11:58 AM   #24
GeoffC
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
Hey y'all, I just noticed something. Wooster and Narritch and Glosster and so on are Old England place names. Did we corrupt the pronounciation on purpose back in the colonial days?
You did lots of things in those days .....



It's always been boy & kee to me....



It's an interesting subject Harry, and is likely to play havoc with careful crafting of rhyming poetry ...

It is also not just a Brit/US curse, but also a north/south England one -
knowing how to say cup and butter correctly, for instance, in our household is an occasional source of mirth..... (I'm always right - of course)
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